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1 hour ago, DawgPoundRed said:

Some of the posters on this forum from your generation are soft too

My belly is soft.

17 minutes ago, Johnpsulions said:

I appreciate everyone’s input. 
 

in all seriousness though, is asking a kid to “cut” from 131 natural weight to 126 really asking that much ? 
 

you obviously can’t force them to but simply encouraging them to do so to reach their said “goals” and help the team? 

you’d think this was legit child abuse the way kids and parents react to this seemingly simple request the last couple of years.

It really depends on what their body fat percentage is. If you are asking to cut 5 pounds before every match. Yeah that can be allot for some kids and if we are being honest. Just not that healthy and against the regulations put out by the IHSAA. Yes many kids are doing much more and many of them might be our place winners. Is what it is.

Great article. Love stories like this. Thanks.

Kids same. Parents different. Our fault as parents. 

I don’t care where he goes. I would just love to see him back. 

38 minutes ago, GenHeavyHandz said:

113 Daring was a semi-state qualifier at 120.

106 Tun is in the state rankings and not the semi-state?

126 Carter Krouse?

*not to mention at least one surprise?

Dodson and Russell just got a Chestie in Indy..........................................?

I've been doing my homework: and I know I'm biased but seriously?

Yep, those are the ones I was thinking of also.  Sectionals will be a good one this year.

19 minutes ago, GenHeavyHandz said:

Snider will crack the top 10 soon

 

I could see that. You are at 22 points now, and I know Snider has a few more that could make the list, plus a few could move up. Especially Dodson. 

All I know is that I was extremely impressed with Thrine at State. Kid is a natural and the skies the limit. I wouldn’t bet against either one of them. 

1 hour ago, GenHeavyHandz said:

I waited a week to be gracious and diplomatic: Kevon Russel from Fort Wayne Snider should be ranked at 157.  2X SSQ. Ticket rounder in an injury shortened season.  Had 4 losses on the season: 3 tough ones to Jackson Todd a 7th placer who graduated.  And 7-0 to Betz in the ticket round.  All after a meniscus tear during football season.  Has beaten guys that are ranked at the weight.

+1 on Kevon.

6 hours ago, Stebn8r said:

Most wrestlers are not spring sport guys. 

If there is immediately lots of support for something similar, why wouldn't wrestling have a similar North / South, Indiana / Kentucky or Area Code war, like basketball, baseball and football.

It would have to be done quickly after state, before the Freestyle season tournaments dominated the attention, time and schedule.

Maybe a it could be a Friday night Pre-tournament draw for a big Sat / Sun Freestyle tournament.

 

I would argue that the ones that would be chosen to compete in this event are mostly year round wrestlers. If your area doesn’t have enough year round wrestlers then you area code will not win this event.

It shouldn’t just be high school. Let’s see what areas have in the pipeline. Maybe K-12 duals teams 50-HWT or Youth, Middle, and High School.

41 minutes ago, Cameron10483 said:

Man, this little cat fight has really derailed a great write up. Should we also bring up wrestle backs and classed wrestling the FW semi thread?

Wrestle backs!?!?

1 hour ago, AC Computer said:

The projected roster and weight classes should be on the website in the next week. You're correct about the new weights. We return the top four weights from last year, all with 30+ wins, but there's only three weight classes for them.

Ouch.

5 minutes ago, Tcarter said:

Care to share with the rest of us??!!!

I would be breaking a solemn trust that shall not be broken. Or maybe I already have spoken too much. 

Just now, roundtablesquires said:

magazine is out? I can't find it to download

Just the super secret copy. It isn't entirely done. It is close. They are working hard on it.

Personally, I think it looks pretty good.

4 hours ago, GrecoCoach said:

 

I wouldn't be surprised if the AI thinks Bellmont and Belmont are two different schools and not combining their successes.  How is it supposed to know that half the state can't spell the school correctly?

There is a Belmont in Ohio by Dayton. Maybe ChatGPT doesn't respect state lines. 

Here is what it gave me for the top 50, and it doesn't have Bellmont cracking the top 50 all-time teams. I think we are safe from ChatGPT taking over the world anytime soon. I'm not saying it will not happen, but at the moment Sam could do a better job with this off the top of his head with pen and paper.

1    Perry Meridian High School
2    Crown Point High School
3    Mater Dei High School
4    Warren Central High School
5    Portage High School
6    Evansville Memorial High School
7    Franklin Community High School
8    Penn High School
9    Indianapolis Cathedral High School
10    Avon High School
11    Brownsburg High School
12    Roncalli High School
13    Lawrence North High School
14    New Palestine High School
15    Hobart High School
16    Mishawaka High School
17    Chesterton High School
18    Elkhart Memorial High School
19    Lake Central High School
20    Delta High School
21    Jay County High School
22    Columbus East High School
23    New Prairie High School
24    Jeffersonville High School
25    LaPorte High School
26    North Montgomery High School
27    Center Grove High School
28    Bloomington South High School
29    Southport High School
30    North Posey High School
31    Lawrence Central High School
32    Carmel High School
33    South Adams High School
34    Perry Central High School
35    Castle High School
36    Ben Davis High School
37    Westfield High School
38    Western High School
39    Kokomo High School
40    Muncie Central High School
41    Crown Point High School
42    Center Grove High School
43    South Bend Riley High School
44    West Lafayette High School
45    Zionsville High School
46    Hobart High School
47    Brownsburg High School
48    Northridge High School
49    Greenfield-Central High School
50    Penn High School
 

Micic's run to his State Championship his senior year was a thing of beauty. It was probably one of my favorites of all time. The energy Micic and his coach had was awesome. Loved every minute of it. 

9 minutes ago, GenHeavyHandz said:

Micic just upset the Olympic Champ….so there’s that.

And looks like he gave him a big old shiner.  Possibly shot right into his knee. Exciting match.

39 minutes ago, Fabio Jr. said:

One thing i know is that some of these higher tier schools have a ton of kids who should be brought up like this I think of Adam Guerra who was behind me and Josh harper for 3 years and came in as a SR and got 5th. Give them 2-3 years of Varsity comp and he could easily compete with high level guys but got one year to do so. Those kids are the real heroes who put their time in to help their teammates be the best they could be  and for just one shot for their own. And never once did those guys say something about it just kept busting their hump. So maybe not state champs but champion humans either way

This^^^^ I remember Bellmont would be like that. "Awesome I get to wrestle a JV kid" and then all of sudden you were doing everything you can to get them off your leg. The next year they would place. Good stuff.

It’s official. It is that time of year. Tomorrow we find out who has been working hard in the off-season and those that need to start pressing on the gas before the season starts.

16 minutes ago, Trinedad said:

Do they wrestle on one mat per weight class? I have a student wrestling, or at least registered at 141 that I am interested in seeing. I am hoping that they will be on one mat so I can see him. Brevin Cannon from Pike, He tells me that he is really good, and I just want to find out.

No. It would take too long. But they may keep wrestlers in a weight class on the same side of the arena. 

31 minutes ago, ReformedPoster said:

Maybe not, but you must have forgotten that Terry stomped him in the semis in '90, by a major I believe.  So a healthy Terry would have been the big favorite in '91.  But hats off to Early, he was the champ in '91.

I heard Early was sick that day...... The games we can play.....  It's the past and it really doesn't matter except to us old losers that like to talk nothing but wrestling. Both were great wrestlers and I don't know about Terry now but I know Early is a great coach and still giving back to the sport.

5 hours ago, GenHeavyHandz said:

No one was beating Eric Early that year.

This^^^^^^ Nothing against the Indy greats back in the day but the only thing they would have gotten that year was an Early crossface cradle sammwich. We understand we may be a little down right now but there was a time the SAC alone would have a couple State Champions a year. Don't try and compare today against the yester years.